This movie shows the work of the Women's Global empowerment Fund in Gulu, Uganda during the stages of recovery from a 20 year conflict. For more information about the organization please visit www.wgefund.org. For more information about the film please contact Jessica Alderman at alderman.jessica@gmail.com

published:25 Jul 2009

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We are so pleased to announce that the first donation for The UltravioletEdge, our global initiative to empower women, will go to Women’s GlobalEmpowerment Fund. To learn more about WGEF, visit wgefund.org. To learn more about The Ultraviolet Edge, visit TheUltraVioletEdge.com.

Oprah's favorite guest of all time, Dr. Tererai Trent, the author of "The AwakenedWoman: Remembering & Reigniting Our SacredDream," shares her incredible journey from child bride in Zimbabwe to achieving her doctorate.
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published:06 Feb 2018

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Heather will be sharing her knowledge of marketing and business opportunity.

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Our mission is to empower and connect low-income women and girls from different communities in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Louisville through global education. In summer 2018, we will be taking our second cohort of 10 high school girls to Agadir, Morocco with a local NGO, Dar Si Hmad.
To learn more and support this grassroots initiative that values inclusivity, intersectionality, and community partnership, please visit www.wgei.info
To learn more about our partner, Dar Si Hmad, please visit www.darsihmad.org

Women's GlobalEmpowerment Fund hosts its annual DramaCompetition in Gulu, Uganda. Through art and drama women are given a platform to discuss challenges that they face in their daily lives. This year the competition focused on education for girls and family planning.

Woman

A woman is a femalehuman. The term woman is usually reserved for an adult, with the term girl being the usual term for a female child or adolescent. The term woman is also sometimes used to identify a female human, regardless of age, as in phrases such as "women's rights". "Woman" may also refer to a person's gender identity. Women with typical genetic development are usually capable of giving birth from puberty until menopause. In the context of gender identity, transgender people who are biologically determined to be male and identify as women cannot give birth. Some intersex people who identify as women cannot give birth due to either sterility or inheriting one or more Y chromosomes. In extremely rare cases, people who have Swyer syndrome can give birth with medical assistance. Throughout history women have assumed or been assigned various social roles.

Etymology

The spelling of woman in English has progressed over the past millennium from wīfmann to wīmmann to wumman, and finally, the modern spelling woman. In Old English, wīfmann meant "female human", whereas wēr meant "male human". Mann or monn had a gender-neutral meaning of "human", corresponding to Modern English "person" or "someone"; however, subsequent to the Norman Conquest, man began to be used more in reference to "male human", and by the late 13th century had begun to eclipse usage of the older term wēr. The medial labial consonants f and m in wīfmann coalesced into the modern form "woman", while the initial element, which meant "female", underwent semantic narrowing to the sense of a married woman ("wife"). It is a popular misconception that the term "woman" is etymologically connected with "womb", which is from a separate Old English word, wambe meaning "stomach" (of male or female; modern German retains the colloquial term "Wampe" from Middle High German for "potbelly"). Nevertheless, such a false derivation of "woman" has appeared in print.

Empowerment

Empowerment refers to measures designed to increase the degree of autonomy and self-determination in people and in communities in order to enable them to represent their interests in a responsible and self-determined way, acting on their own authority. Empowerment refers both to the process of self-empowerment and to professional support of people, which enables them to overcome their sense of powerlessness and lack of influence, and to recognise and eventually to use their resources and chances.

The term empowerment is also used for an accomplished state of self-responsibility and self-determination.

The term empowerment originates from American community psychology and is associated with the social scientist Julian Rappaport (1981).

In social work, empowerment forms a practical approach of resource-oriented intervention. In the field of citizenship education and democratic education, empowerment is seen as a tool to increase the responsibility of the citizen. Empowerment is a key concept in the discourse on promoting civic engagement. Empowerment as a concept, which is characterized by a move away from a deficit-oriented towards a more strength-oriented perception, can increasingly be found in management concepts, as well as in the areas of continuing education and self-help.

The weekday edition of the program is currently anchored by Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell. The program emphasizes general national and international news stories and in-depth reports throughout each edition, although it also includes live in-studio and pre-taped interviews. The format was chosen as an alternative to the soft news and lifestyle-driven formats of competitors Today and Good Morning America following the first hour or half-hour of those broadcasts, in an attempt to give the program a competitive edge with its hard news format (CBS has historically placed third in the ratings among the network morning shows).

Women's Global Empowerment Fund: Revolution

This movie shows the work of the Women's Global empowerment Fund in Gulu, Uganda during the stages of recovery from a 20 year conflict. For more information about the organization please visit www.wgefund.org. For more information about the film please contact Jessica Alderman at alderman.jessica@gmail.com

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Women’s Global Empowerment Fund | Urban Decay | The UltraViolet Edge

Women’s Global Empowerment Fund | Urban Decay | The UltraViolet Edge

Women’s Global Empowerment Fund | Urban Decay | The UltraViolet Edge

We are so pleased to announce that the first donation for The UltravioletEdge, our global initiative to empower women, will go to Women’s GlobalEmpowerment Fund. To learn more about WGEF, visit wgefund.org. To learn more about The Ultraviolet Edge, visit TheUltraVioletEdge.com.

Oprah's favorite guest of all time, Dr. Tererai Trent, the author of "The AwakenedWoman: Remembering & Reigniting Our SacredDream," shares her incredible journey from child bride in Zimbabwe to achieving her doctorate.
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Global Empowerment For Women

Global Empowerment For Women

Global Empowerment For Women

Heather will be sharing her knowledge of marketing and business opportunity.

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Women's Global Empowerment Initiative

Women's Global Empowerment Initiative

Women's Global Empowerment Initiative

Our mission is to empower and connect low-income women and girls from different communities in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Louisville through global education. In summer 2018, we will be taking our second cohort of 10 high school girls to Agadir, Morocco with a local NGO, Dar Si Hmad.
To learn more and support this grassroots initiative that values inclusivity, intersectionality, and community partnership, please visit www.wgei.info
To learn more about our partner, Dar Si Hmad, please visit www.darsihmad.org

Women's Global Empowerment Fund Annual Drama Competition

Women's GlobalEmpowerment Fund hosts its annual DramaCompetition in Gulu, Uganda. Through art and drama women are given a platform to discuss challenges that they face in their daily lives. This year the competition focused on education for girls and family planning.

Women & Girl Empowerment

A short video by Kutoa that will help you understand the basics concerning the global empowerment of women & girls. After you've watched it be sure to cast your vote as part of your class, family or as an individual by visiting www.kutoa.org.

In this Global Citizen guide to global issues, find out more about female empowerment and gender inequality. Girls and women are essential to building healthier, better-educated and sustainable communities, yet they’re too often afflicted with some of the harshest aspects of poverty. Watch more Global Citizen guides to global issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhNv4cgCUc&list=PLPDkqknt-rAguHrI3y7MHHFv4cHKBo018
Follow the issue: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/issue/women-girls/
Global Citizen is a social action platform for a global generation that aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges. On our platform you can learn about issues, take action on what matters most, and join a community committed to social change. We believe we can end extreme poverty because of the collective actions of GlobalCitizensacross the world. Join the movement and take action to end extreme poverty: https://www.globalcitizen.org
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This video is a Global Citizen guide to gender inequality and female empowerment.

This Development Studies seminar titled "Women’s Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice" was given by ProfessorAndreaCornwall (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK) on 1 December2015 at SOAS University of London.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/
Find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/Zu8eSO
Women’s empowerment would, at face value, seem to be an odd vehicle for the development industry to use to pursue the project begun in the era of structural adjustment of the 1980s. Yet it has proven a remarkably successful strategy for enlistment of a diversity of 'investors' - multilateral banks, international NGOs, governments, philanthropic foundations and most recently, multinational corporations. The so-called “instrumentalism” with which women’s empowerment has been enthusiastically seized and put to work by this panoply of actors draws on arguments advanced over the previous three decades by feminist academics that were - paradoxically – largely grounded in materialist concerns about inequality. For the feminists who advanced the notion of empowerment in the 1970s and 1980s, it would have been barely conceivable that a mere three decades later we would witness transnational corporations, conservative governments and banks extolling the virtues of enabling women to enjoy greater economic autonomy and exercise their agency. This disjuncture between feminist definitions of empowerment and their incorporation by the neoliberal development complex is the focus for this seminar, which will look at the rise and rise of "empowering women and girls" in the current conjuncture.
Professor Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of gender, sexuality, democracy, citizen participation and participatory research. Trained at SOAS in Social Anthropology, her work includes explorations into women’s perspectives on family planning, fertility and sexually transmitted infection in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, public engagement in UK regeneration programmes, the quality of democratic deliberation in new democratic spaces in Brazil, the use and abuse of participatory appraisal in Kenya, domestic workers’ rights activism in Brazil, and sex workers’ rights activism in India. She is Director of the Pathways of Women Empowerment research network, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, and Head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.

Women's Global Empowerment Fund 2011

Women's Global Empowerment Fund: Revolution

This movie shows the work of the Women's Global empowerment Fund in Gulu, Uganda during the stages of recovery from a 20 year conflict. For more information about the organization please visit www.wgefund.org. For more information about the film please contact Jessica Alderman at alderman.jessica@gmail.com

published: 25 Jul 2009

Women’s Global Empowerment Fund | Urban Decay | The UltraViolet Edge

We are so pleased to announce that the first donation for The UltravioletEdge, our global initiative to empower women, will go to Women’s GlobalEmpowerment Fund. To learn more about WGEF, visit wgefund.org. To learn more about The Ultraviolet Edge, visit TheUltraVioletEdge.com.

published: 08 Mar 2015

WGEF - Womens' Global Empowerment Fund

Oprah's favorite guest of all time, Dr. Tererai Trent, the author of "The AwakenedWoman: Remembering & Reigniting Our SacredDream," shares her incredible journey from child bride in Zimbabwe to achieving her doctorate.
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published: 06 Feb 2018

Global Empowerment For Women

Heather will be sharing her knowledge of marketing and business opportunity.

published: 22 Feb 2015

Women's Global Empowerment Initiative

Our mission is to empower and connect low-income women and girls from different communities in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Louisville through global education. In summer 2018, we will be taking our second cohort of 10 high school girls to Agadir, Morocco with a local NGO, Dar Si Hmad.
To learn more and support this grassroots initiative that values inclusivity, intersectionality, and community partnership, please visit www.wgei.info
To learn more about our partner, Dar Si Hmad, please visit www.darsihmad.org

published: 28 Nov 2017

Women's Global Empowerment Fund Program in Uganda

Women's Global Empowerment Fund Annual Drama Competition

Women's GlobalEmpowerment Fund hosts its annual DramaCompetition in Gulu, Uganda. Through art and drama women are given a platform to discuss challenges that they face in their daily lives. This year the competition focused on education for girls and family planning.

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Equal rights and status for women and girls are essential to prosperity. Without the full participation of women across all levels of society, we all fail to realize our true potential and productivity. Additionally, the oppression of women in many countries around the world is a large contributor to perpetuating extremism and gender-based violence. However, despite global consensus on the integral value of gender empowerment, true equality is far from a reality, and has yet to reach the international urgency and immediacy of other causes. As a global community, we face the daunting declaration by the World Economic Forum that it may be over 100 years until full gender equality will be realized.
This panel at the 2016 Conc...

Women & Girl Empowerment

A short video by Kutoa that will help you understand the basics concerning the global empowerment of women & girls. After you've watched it be sure to cast your vote as part of your class, family or as an individual by visiting www.kutoa.org.

In this Global Citizen guide to global issues, find out more about female empowerment and gender inequality. Girls and women are essential to building healthier, better-educated and sustainable communities, yet they’re too often afflicted with some of the harshest aspects of poverty. Watch more Global Citizen guides to global issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhNv4cgCUc&list=PLPDkqknt-rAguHrI3y7MHHFv4cHKBo018
Follow the issue: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/issue/women-girls/
Global Citizen is a social action platform for a global generation that aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges. On our platform you can learn about issues, take action on what matters most, and join a community committed to social change. We believe we can end extreme poverty because of the collective...

Women's Global Empowerment Fund: Revolution

This movie shows the work of the Women's Global empowerment Fund in Gulu, Uganda during the stages of recovery from a 20 year conflict. For more information abo...

This movie shows the work of the Women's Global empowerment Fund in Gulu, Uganda during the stages of recovery from a 20 year conflict. For more information about the organization please visit www.wgefund.org. For more information about the film please contact Jessica Alderman at alderman.jessica@gmail.com

This movie shows the work of the Women's Global empowerment Fund in Gulu, Uganda during the stages of recovery from a 20 year conflict. For more information about the organization please visit www.wgefund.org. For more information about the film please contact Jessica Alderman at alderman.jessica@gmail.com

We are so pleased to announce that the first donation for The UltravioletEdge, our global initiative to empower women, will go to Women’s GlobalEmpowerment Fund. To learn more about WGEF, visit wgefund.org. To learn more about The Ultraviolet Edge, visit TheUltraVioletEdge.com.

We are so pleased to announce that the first donation for The UltravioletEdge, our global initiative to empower women, will go to Women’s GlobalEmpowerment Fund. To learn more about WGEF, visit wgefund.org. To learn more about The Ultraviolet Edge, visit TheUltraVioletEdge.com.

Oprah's favorite guest of all time, Dr. Tererai Trent, the author of "The AwakenedWoman: Remembering & Reigniting Our SacredDream," shares her incredible journey from child bride in Zimbabwe to achieving her doctorate.
Subscribe to the "CBS This Morning" Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/1Q0v2hE
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Delivered by Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King, "CBS This Morning" offers a thoughtful, substantive and insightful source of news and information to a daily audience of 3 million viewers. The Emmy Award-winning broadcast presents a mix of daily news, coverage of developing stories of national and global significance, and interviews with leading figures in politics, business and entertainment. Check local listings for "CBS This Morning" broadcast times.

Oprah's favorite guest of all time, Dr. Tererai Trent, the author of "The AwakenedWoman: Remembering & Reigniting Our SacredDream," shares her incredible journey from child bride in Zimbabwe to achieving her doctorate.
Subscribe to the "CBS This Morning" Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/1Q0v2hE
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Delivered by Norah O’Donnell and Gayle King, "CBS This Morning" offers a thoughtful, substantive and insightful source of news and information to a daily audience of 3 million viewers. The Emmy Award-winning broadcast presents a mix of daily news, coverage of developing stories of national and global significance, and interviews with leading figures in politics, business and entertainment. Check local listings for "CBS This Morning" broadcast times.

Women's Global Empowerment Initiative

Our mission is to empower and connect low-income women and girls from different communities in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Louisville through global education. I...

Our mission is to empower and connect low-income women and girls from different communities in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Louisville through global education. In summer 2018, we will be taking our second cohort of 10 high school girls to Agadir, Morocco with a local NGO, Dar Si Hmad.
To learn more and support this grassroots initiative that values inclusivity, intersectionality, and community partnership, please visit www.wgei.info
To learn more about our partner, Dar Si Hmad, please visit www.darsihmad.org

Our mission is to empower and connect low-income women and girls from different communities in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Louisville through global education. In summer 2018, we will be taking our second cohort of 10 high school girls to Agadir, Morocco with a local NGO, Dar Si Hmad.
To learn more and support this grassroots initiative that values inclusivity, intersectionality, and community partnership, please visit www.wgei.info
To learn more about our partner, Dar Si Hmad, please visit www.darsihmad.org

Women's GlobalEmpowerment Fund hosts its annual DramaCompetition in Gulu, Uganda. Through art and drama women are given a platform to discuss challenges that they face in their daily lives. This year the competition focused on education for girls and family planning.

Women's GlobalEmpowerment Fund hosts its annual DramaCompetition in Gulu, Uganda. Through art and drama women are given a platform to discuss challenges that they face in their daily lives. This year the competition focused on education for girls and family planning.

Women & Girl Empowerment

A short video by Kutoa that will help you understand the basics concerning the global empowerment of women & girls. After you've watched it be sure to cast your...

A short video by Kutoa that will help you understand the basics concerning the global empowerment of women & girls. After you've watched it be sure to cast your vote as part of your class, family or as an individual by visiting www.kutoa.org.

A short video by Kutoa that will help you understand the basics concerning the global empowerment of women & girls. After you've watched it be sure to cast your vote as part of your class, family or as an individual by visiting www.kutoa.org.

In this Global Citizen guide to global issues, find out more about female empowerment and gender inequality. Girls and women are essential to building healthier...

In this Global Citizen guide to global issues, find out more about female empowerment and gender inequality. Girls and women are essential to building healthier, better-educated and sustainable communities, yet they’re too often afflicted with some of the harshest aspects of poverty. Watch more Global Citizen guides to global issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhNv4cgCUc&list=PLPDkqknt-rAguHrI3y7MHHFv4cHKBo018
Follow the issue: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/issue/women-girls/
Global Citizen is a social action platform for a global generation that aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges. On our platform you can learn about issues, take action on what matters most, and join a community committed to social change. We believe we can end extreme poverty because of the collective actions of GlobalCitizensacross the world. Join the movement and take action to end extreme poverty: https://www.globalcitizen.org
Subscribe to the Global Citizen YouTube channel for latest news on global issues: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=GlobalPovertyProject
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This video is a Global Citizen guide to gender inequality and female empowerment.

In this Global Citizen guide to global issues, find out more about female empowerment and gender inequality. Girls and women are essential to building healthier, better-educated and sustainable communities, yet they’re too often afflicted with some of the harshest aspects of poverty. Watch more Global Citizen guides to global issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWhNv4cgCUc&list=PLPDkqknt-rAguHrI3y7MHHFv4cHKBo018
Follow the issue: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/issue/women-girls/
Global Citizen is a social action platform for a global generation that aims to solve the world’s biggest challenges. On our platform you can learn about issues, take action on what matters most, and join a community committed to social change. We believe we can end extreme poverty because of the collective actions of GlobalCitizensacross the world. Join the movement and take action to end extreme poverty: https://www.globalcitizen.org
Subscribe to the Global Citizen YouTube channel for latest news on global issues: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=GlobalPovertyProject
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This video is a Global Citizen guide to gender inequality and female empowerment.

This Development Studies seminar titled "Women’s Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice" was given by ProfessorAndreaCornwall (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK) on 1 December2015 at SOAS University of London.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/
Find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/Zu8eSO
Women’s empowerment would, at face value, seem to be an odd vehicle for the development industry to use to pursue the project begun in the era of structural adjustment of the 1980s. Yet it has proven a remarkably successful strategy for enlistment of a diversity of 'investors' - multilateral banks, international NGOs, governments, philanthropic foundations and most recently, multinational corporations. The so-called “instrumentalism” with which women’s empowerment has been enthusiastically seized and put to work by this panoply of actors draws on arguments advanced over the previous three decades by feminist academics that were - paradoxically – largely grounded in materialist concerns about inequality. For the feminists who advanced the notion of empowerment in the 1970s and 1980s, it would have been barely conceivable that a mere three decades later we would witness transnational corporations, conservative governments and banks extolling the virtues of enabling women to enjoy greater economic autonomy and exercise their agency. This disjuncture between feminist definitions of empowerment and their incorporation by the neoliberal development complex is the focus for this seminar, which will look at the rise and rise of "empowering women and girls" in the current conjuncture.
Professor Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of gender, sexuality, democracy, citizen participation and participatory research. Trained at SOAS in Social Anthropology, her work includes explorations into women’s perspectives on family planning, fertility and sexually transmitted infection in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, public engagement in UK regeneration programmes, the quality of democratic deliberation in new democratic spaces in Brazil, the use and abuse of participatory appraisal in Kenya, domestic workers’ rights activism in Brazil, and sex workers’ rights activism in India. She is Director of the Pathways of Women Empowerment research network, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, and Head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.

This Development Studies seminar titled "Women’s Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice" was given by ProfessorAndreaCornwall (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK) on 1 December2015 at SOAS University of London.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/
Find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/Zu8eSO
Women’s empowerment would, at face value, seem to be an odd vehicle for the development industry to use to pursue the project begun in the era of structural adjustment of the 1980s. Yet it has proven a remarkably successful strategy for enlistment of a diversity of 'investors' - multilateral banks, international NGOs, governments, philanthropic foundations and most recently, multinational corporations. The so-called “instrumentalism” with which women’s empowerment has been enthusiastically seized and put to work by this panoply of actors draws on arguments advanced over the previous three decades by feminist academics that were - paradoxically – largely grounded in materialist concerns about inequality. For the feminists who advanced the notion of empowerment in the 1970s and 1980s, it would have been barely conceivable that a mere three decades later we would witness transnational corporations, conservative governments and banks extolling the virtues of enabling women to enjoy greater economic autonomy and exercise their agency. This disjuncture between feminist definitions of empowerment and their incorporation by the neoliberal development complex is the focus for this seminar, which will look at the rise and rise of "empowering women and girls" in the current conjuncture.
Professor Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of gender, sexuality, democracy, citizen participation and participatory research. Trained at SOAS in Social Anthropology, her work includes explorations into women’s perspectives on family planning, fertility and sexually transmitted infection in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, public engagement in UK regeneration programmes, the quality of democratic deliberation in new democratic spaces in Brazil, the use and abuse of participatory appraisal in Kenya, domestic workers’ rights activism in Brazil, and sex workers’ rights activism in India. She is Director of the Pathways of Women Empowerment research network, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, and Head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.

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Equal rights and status for women and girls are essential to prosperity. Without the full participation of women across all levels of society, we all fail to realize our true potential and productivity. Additionally, the oppression of women in many countries around the world is a large contributor to perpetuating extremism and gender-based violence. However, despite global consensus on the integral value of gender empowerment, true equality is far from a reality, and has yet to reach the international urgency and immediacy of other causes. As a global community, we face the daunting declaration by the World Economic Forum that it may be over 100 years until full gender equality will be realized.
This panel at the 2016 Conc...

2017 Women's Economic Empowerment Summit

The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Summit, hosted by Walmart, features a general session with panel discussions to share ideas and learnings on training in emerging markets, growing women-owned businesses, inclusion and the role of CEOs in advancing women’s empowerment.

published: 29 Mar 2017

Women's Empowerment at Misk Global Forum 2017

What does women’s empowerment mean in Saudi Arabia?
WATCH and SHARE this inspiring and revealing session from Misk GlobalForum, exploring women’s roles in 2017, both in the Middle East and the wider world:

Empowerment, Equality, and Impact: A Briefing on Girls' Education

Tremendous progress has been made on efforts to enroll girls and boys in school in equal numbers. To build on those achievements, though, it is imperative that the global education community places its focus on ensuring that girls complete secondary education with the skills they need for healthy and productive lives and livelihoods.
This briefing will include high level remarks on the ways in which the achievement of the aforementioned goals is being pursued. High level speakers, including practitioners, academics, education advocates, and voices from the political sphere, will have the opportunity to highlight how they are working towards safe, healthy, and productive outcomes for all girls.
Empowerment, Equality, and Impact: A Briefing on Girls' Education
Speakers
Mr Joel Gomez, D...

published: 30 Mar 2017

Creating Opportunities for Economic Empowerment and Employment for Young Women

Business leaders identify the youth employment crisis as one of the most pressing global risks of our time, but also see investing in youth as one of the greatest potentials for business growth and development. There are more young people today than at any other time in history, approximately 1.8 billion, and half are women. These young people are breaking through stereotypes and creating innovative, concrete solutions to long-standing problems. Yet, although young people are creating these sustainable solutions, there is a disconnect with the formal labour force. Over the last year, youth unemployment rates have increased and the disparity in labour force participation between young women and men has widened.
This webinar, co-hosted by the UN Global Compact, UN Women and Plan Internatio...

How Should We Measure Women’s Economic Empowerment?

The event, co-sponsored by CGD, Data2X and IDRC, will mark the launch of a new book, Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons from South America. Co-Editor Susana Martinez-Restrepo will present main findings from field work in Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. A panel discussion with some of the leading experts on the topic will follow the launch.

#WF14 - Women’s empowerment: Bearing witness to the changes

This year is the 10th edition of the Women’s ForumGlobal Meeting. We are celebrating by bringing together a truly outstanding group of speakers — trailblazers for human rights and women’s empowerment and pioneers and new innovators in business, education, and science and technology. Our aim? For participants be inspired by and discuss with these leaders about how we can contribute to more equitable economies and societies. Ours is a complicated and sometimes overwhelming, unjust, and violent world. It’s also a world where more women, in more contexts, have agency and can make a difference.
Women’s empowerment: Bearing witness to the changes
Are women more equal to men today than during our mothers’ youth? What do we expect for our children? Are the inequities women must face changing ...

published: 15 Oct 2014

2017 Global Development Forum: Empowerment of Women and Girls

The premise that women and girls are an essential element in maximizing inclusive and sustainable growth in developing economies is now widely accepted. The panel will explore the underlying data that supports this premise, and the best practices that are evolving to ensure girls stay in school, join the workforce, are able to manage contributions to the economy with family obligations, and the challenges that remain to ensuring women and girls fulfill their potential to contribute to the economy and society.

The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Summit, hosted by Walmart, features a general session with panel discussions to share ideas and learnings on training in emerging markets, growing women-owned businesses, inclusion and the role of CEOs in advancing women’s empowerment.

The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Summit, hosted by Walmart, features a general session with panel discussions to share ideas and learnings on training in emerging markets, growing women-owned businesses, inclusion and the role of CEOs in advancing women’s empowerment.

Women's Empowerment at Misk Global Forum 2017

What does women’s empowerment mean in Saudi Arabia?
WATCH and SHARE this inspiring and revealing session from Misk GlobalForum, exploring women’s roles in 20...

What does women’s empowerment mean in Saudi Arabia?
WATCH and SHARE this inspiring and revealing session from Misk GlobalForum, exploring women’s roles in 2017, both in the Middle East and the wider world:

What does women’s empowerment mean in Saudi Arabia?
WATCH and SHARE this inspiring and revealing session from Misk GlobalForum, exploring women’s roles in 2017, both in the Middle East and the wider world:

Creating Opportunities for Economic Empowerment and Employment for Young Women

Business leaders identify the youth employment crisis as one of the most pressing global risks of our time, but also see investing in youth as one of the greate...

Business leaders identify the youth employment crisis as one of the most pressing global risks of our time, but also see investing in youth as one of the greatest potentials for business growth and development. There are more young people today than at any other time in history, approximately 1.8 billion, and half are women. These young people are breaking through stereotypes and creating innovative, concrete solutions to long-standing problems. Yet, although young people are creating these sustainable solutions, there is a disconnect with the formal labour force. Over the last year, youth unemployment rates have increased and the disparity in labour force participation between young women and men has widened.
This webinar, co-hosted by the UN Global Compact, UN Women and Plan International, will highlight the opportunity and need for business to scale up action and invest in the future workforce to create economic opportunities for young women around the world, produce bottom line impacts on business growth and sustainability, and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Business leaders identify the youth employment crisis as one of the most pressing global risks of our time, but also see investing in youth as one of the greatest potentials for business growth and development. There are more young people today than at any other time in history, approximately 1.8 billion, and half are women. These young people are breaking through stereotypes and creating innovative, concrete solutions to long-standing problems. Yet, although young people are creating these sustainable solutions, there is a disconnect with the formal labour force. Over the last year, youth unemployment rates have increased and the disparity in labour force participation between young women and men has widened.
This webinar, co-hosted by the UN Global Compact, UN Women and Plan International, will highlight the opportunity and need for business to scale up action and invest in the future workforce to create economic opportunities for young women around the world, produce bottom line impacts on business growth and sustainability, and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This discussion is about women's economic empowerment with a focus on the Pacific region. Panelists include Amy Luinstra, SeniorGenderSpecialist at the International Finance Corporation who has been involved with the recently established BusinessCoalition for Women inPapua New Guinea -- the first organisation of its kind in the Pacific; JoanneCrawford, Research and Policy Adviser at the International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) and; Amanda Donigi, Founder and Editor of StellaMagazine in Papua New Guinea.
Globally women earn less than men and are less likely to be employed: they are only half as likely to be in full time jobs and when they are, their incomes are on average 10-30 percent lower. Meanwhile the latest Grant Thornton International Business Report indicates that the share of women in senior management roles, worldwide, is only 24 percent.
Our region, the Pacific, has the world's lowest rate of female political representation. While women are becoming increasingly better educated, they continue to lack access to land, finance and jobs, and much of their work, in the home and on their land, is overwhelmingly undervalued.
Promoting women's economic empowerment, as entrepreneurs, employees, and leaders is increasingly seen as one of the most important drivers of the fight against poverty.
But what can be done to promote women's leadership in the workplace? What works in addressing gender gaps in employment - and what are the roles of governments, businesses, and civil society in making this happen?
Recorded: Friday 20 June
Moderator: Auskar Surbakti, Journalist

This discussion is about women's economic empowerment with a focus on the Pacific region. Panelists include Amy Luinstra, SeniorGenderSpecialist at the International Finance Corporation who has been involved with the recently established BusinessCoalition for Women inPapua New Guinea -- the first organisation of its kind in the Pacific; JoanneCrawford, Research and Policy Adviser at the International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) and; Amanda Donigi, Founder and Editor of StellaMagazine in Papua New Guinea.
Globally women earn less than men and are less likely to be employed: they are only half as likely to be in full time jobs and when they are, their incomes are on average 10-30 percent lower. Meanwhile the latest Grant Thornton International Business Report indicates that the share of women in senior management roles, worldwide, is only 24 percent.
Our region, the Pacific, has the world's lowest rate of female political representation. While women are becoming increasingly better educated, they continue to lack access to land, finance and jobs, and much of their work, in the home and on their land, is overwhelmingly undervalued.
Promoting women's economic empowerment, as entrepreneurs, employees, and leaders is increasingly seen as one of the most important drivers of the fight against poverty.
But what can be done to promote women's leadership in the workplace? What works in addressing gender gaps in employment - and what are the roles of governments, businesses, and civil society in making this happen?
Recorded: Friday 20 June
Moderator: Auskar Surbakti, Journalist

This Development Studies seminar titled "Women’s Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice" was given by ProfessorAndreaCornwall (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK) on 1 December2015 at SOAS University of London.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/
Find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/Zu8eSO
Women’s empowerment would, at face value, seem to be an odd vehicle for the development industry to use to pursue the project begun in the era of structural adjustment of the 1980s. Yet it has proven a remarkably successful strategy for enlistment of a diversity of 'investors' - multilateral banks, international NGOs, governments, philanthropic foundations and most recently, multinational corporations. The so-called “instrumentalism” with which women’s empowerment has been enthusiastically seized and put to work by this panoply of actors draws on arguments advanced over the previous three decades by feminist academics that were - paradoxically – largely grounded in materialist concerns about inequality. For the feminists who advanced the notion of empowerment in the 1970s and 1980s, it would have been barely conceivable that a mere three decades later we would witness transnational corporations, conservative governments and banks extolling the virtues of enabling women to enjoy greater economic autonomy and exercise their agency. This disjuncture between feminist definitions of empowerment and their incorporation by the neoliberal development complex is the focus for this seminar, which will look at the rise and rise of "empowering women and girls" in the current conjuncture.
Professor Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of gender, sexuality, democracy, citizen participation and participatory research. Trained at SOAS in Social Anthropology, her work includes explorations into women’s perspectives on family planning, fertility and sexually transmitted infection in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, public engagement in UK regeneration programmes, the quality of democratic deliberation in new democratic spaces in Brazil, the use and abuse of participatory appraisal in Kenya, domestic workers’ rights activism in Brazil, and sex workers’ rights activism in India. She is Director of the Pathways of Women Empowerment research network, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, and Head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.

This Development Studies seminar titled "Women’s Empowerment, Neoliberal Development and Global Justice" was given by ProfessorAndreaCornwall (School of Global Studies, University of Sussex, UK) on 1 December2015 at SOAS University of London.
https://www.soas.ac.uk/development/
Find out more about this event at https://goo.gl/Zu8eSO
Women’s empowerment would, at face value, seem to be an odd vehicle for the development industry to use to pursue the project begun in the era of structural adjustment of the 1980s. Yet it has proven a remarkably successful strategy for enlistment of a diversity of 'investors' - multilateral banks, international NGOs, governments, philanthropic foundations and most recently, multinational corporations. The so-called “instrumentalism” with which women’s empowerment has been enthusiastically seized and put to work by this panoply of actors draws on arguments advanced over the previous three decades by feminist academics that were - paradoxically – largely grounded in materialist concerns about inequality. For the feminists who advanced the notion of empowerment in the 1970s and 1980s, it would have been barely conceivable that a mere three decades later we would witness transnational corporations, conservative governments and banks extolling the virtues of enabling women to enjoy greater economic autonomy and exercise their agency. This disjuncture between feminist definitions of empowerment and their incorporation by the neoliberal development complex is the focus for this seminar, which will look at the rise and rise of "empowering women and girls" in the current conjuncture.
Professor Andrea Cornwall is a political anthropologist with expertise in the anthropology of gender, sexuality, democracy, citizen participation and participatory research. Trained at SOAS in Social Anthropology, her work includes explorations into women’s perspectives on family planning, fertility and sexually transmitted infection in Nigeria and Zimbabwe, public engagement in UK regeneration programmes, the quality of democratic deliberation in new democratic spaces in Brazil, the use and abuse of participatory appraisal in Kenya, domestic workers’ rights activism in Brazil, and sex workers’ rights activism in India. She is Director of the Pathways of Women Empowerment research network, Professor of Anthropology and International Development, and Head of the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex.

The event, co-sponsored by CGD, Data2X and IDRC, will mark the launch of a new book, Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons from South America. Co-Editor Susana Martinez-Restrepo will present main findings from field work in Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. A panel discussion with some of the leading experts on the topic will follow the launch.

The event, co-sponsored by CGD, Data2X and IDRC, will mark the launch of a new book, Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Lessons from South America. Co-Editor Susana Martinez-Restrepo will present main findings from field work in Colombia, Peru and Uruguay. A panel discussion with some of the leading experts on the topic will follow the launch.

2017 Global Development Forum: Empowerment of Women and Girls

The premise that women and girls are an essential element in maximizing inclusive and sustainable growth in developing economies is now widely accepted. The pan...

The premise that women and girls are an essential element in maximizing inclusive and sustainable growth in developing economies is now widely accepted. The panel will explore the underlying data that supports this premise, and the best practices that are evolving to ensure girls stay in school, join the workforce, are able to manage contributions to the economy with family obligations, and the challenges that remain to ensuring women and girls fulfill their potential to contribute to the economy and society.

The premise that women and girls are an essential element in maximizing inclusive and sustainable growth in developing economies is now widely accepted. The panel will explore the underlying data that supports this premise, and the best practices that are evolving to ensure girls stay in school, join the workforce, are able to manage contributions to the economy with family obligations, and the challenges that remain to ensuring women and girls fulfill their potential to contribute to the economy and society.

Women's Global Empowerment Fund: Revolution

This movie shows the work of the Women's Global empowerment Fund in Gulu, Uganda during the stages of recovery from a 20 year conflict. For more information about the organization please visit www.wgefund.org. For more information about the film please contact Jessica Alderman at alderman.jessica@gmail.com

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Women’s Global Empowerment Fund | Urban Decay | The UltraViolet Edge

We are so pleased to announce that the first donation for The Ultraviolet Edge, our global...

Women’s Global Empowerment Fund | Urban Decay | The UltraViolet Edge

We are so pleased to announce that the first donation for The UltravioletEdge, our global initiative to empower women, will go to Women’s GlobalEmpowerment Fund. To learn more about WGEF, visit wgefund.org. To learn more about The Ultraviolet Edge, visit TheUltraVioletEdge.com.

Oprah's favorite guest of all time, Dr. Tererai Trent, the author of "The AwakenedWoman: Remembering & Reigniting Our SacredDream," shares her incredible journey from child bride in Zimbabwe to achieving her doctorate.
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Global Empowerment For Women

Heather will be sharing her knowledge of marketing and business opportunity.

Women's Global Empowerment Initiative

Our mission is to empower and connect low-income women and girls from different communities in New Orleans, Atlanta, and Louisville through global education. In summer 2018, we will be taking our second cohort of 10 high school girls to Agadir, Morocco with a local NGO, Dar Si Hmad.
To learn more and support this grassroots initiative that values inclusivity, intersectionality, and community partnership, please visit www.wgei.info
To learn more about our partner, Dar Si Hmad, please visit www.darsihmad.org

Women's Global Empowerment Fund Annual Drama Competition

Women's GlobalEmpowerment Fund hosts its annual DramaCompetition in Gulu, Uganda. Through art and drama women are given a platform to discuss challenges that they face in their daily lives. This year the competition focused on education for girls and family planning.

2017 Women's Economic Empowerment Summit

The Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Summit, hosted by Walmart, features a general session with panel discussions to share ideas and learnings on training in emerging markets, growing women-owned businesses, inclusion and the role of CEOs in advancing women’s empowerment.

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Women's Empowerment at Misk Global Forum 2017

What does women’s empowerment mean in Saudi Arabia?
WATCH and SHARE this inspiring and r...

Women's Empowerment at Misk Global Forum 2017

What does women’s empowerment mean in Saudi Arabia?
WATCH and SHARE this inspiring and revealing session from Misk GlobalForum, exploring women’s roles in 2017, both in the Middle East and the wider world:

Creating Opportunities for Economic Empowerment and Employment for Young Women

Business leaders identify the youth employment crisis as one of the most pressing global risks of our time, but also see investing in youth as one of the greatest potentials for business growth and development. There are more young people today than at any other time in history, approximately 1.8 billion, and half are women. These young people are breaking through stereotypes and creating innovative, concrete solutions to long-standing problems. Yet, although young people are creating these sustainable solutions, there is a disconnect with the formal labour force. Over the last year, youth unemployment rates have increased and the disparity in labour force participation between young women and men has widened.
This webinar, co-hosted by the UN Global Compact, UN Women and Plan International, will highlight the opportunity and need for business to scale up action and invest in the future workforce to create economic opportunities for young women around the world, produce bottom line impacts on business growth and sustainability, and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Women's Economic Empowerment

This discussion is about women's economic empowerment with a focus on the Pacific region. Panelists include Amy Luinstra, SeniorGenderSpecialist at the International Finance Corporation who has been involved with the recently established BusinessCoalition for Women inPapua New Guinea -- the first organisation of its kind in the Pacific; JoanneCrawford, Research and Policy Adviser at the International Women's Development Agency (IWDA) and; Amanda Donigi, Founder and Editor of StellaMagazine in Papua New Guinea.
Globally women earn less than men and are less likely to be employed: they are only half as likely to be in full time jobs and when they are, their incomes are on average 10-30 percent lower. Meanwhile the latest Grant Thornton International Business Report indicates that the share of women in senior management roles, worldwide, is only 24 percent.
Our region, the Pacific, has the world's lowest rate of female political representation. While women are becoming increasingly better educated, they continue to lack access to land, finance and jobs, and much of their work, in the home and on their land, is overwhelmingly undervalued.
Promoting women's economic empowerment, as entrepreneurs, employees, and leaders is increasingly seen as one of the most important drivers of the fight against poverty.
But what can be done to promote women's leadership in the workplace? What works in addressing gender gaps in employment - and what are the roles of governments, businesses, and civil society in making this happen?
Recorded: Friday 20 June
Moderator: Auskar Surbakti, Journalist

2017 Global Development Forum: Empowerment of Wome...

The Global Leadership Symposium: Women’s Empowerme...

Gizmodo reported on Wednesday that a former Google engineer is suing the company for discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination ...Chevalier's posts had been quoting in Damore's lawsuit against Google, who is also suing the company for alleged discrimination against conservative white men ... “Firing the employee who pushed back against the bullies was exactly the wrong step to take.” ... But the effect is the same....

Early action to cut greenhouse gas emissions would limit the long-term rise, driven by a thaw of ice from Greenland to Antarctica that will re-draw global coastlines, a German-led team wrote in the journal Nature Communications... The report also found that every five years of delay be­­yond 2020 in peaking global emissions would mean an extra 20 centimetres (8 inch­­es) of sea level rise by 2300....

The woman tasked with caring for accused Florida shooter Nikolas Cruz and his brother have moved quickly to file court papers seeking control of their inheritance the day after the massacre at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School, Newsweek reported. When the mother of Nikolas and Zachary Cruz died from flu-related pneumonia last November, their lives were entrusted to Roxanne Deschamps, the report said....

Special CounselRobert Mueller's probe is prepared to accept a guilty plea from the London-based son-in-law of a Russian businessman after he made false statements during the investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to the Washington Post... Tymoshenko was later imprisoned by former president Viktor Yanukovych after signing a controversial deal with Russia for natural gas ... U.S ... U.S....

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingTo this day it’s something my aunt hardly mentions, let alone discusses. And like a few other families living in the United States, it’s taboo and completely off limits ... Neither was it as widespread, since Japan had nearly conquered most of East Asia including parts of China. But still, U.S ... authorities continued the comfort station system absent formal slavery ... The U.S ... military authorities ... ....

WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve officials at their January meeting saw a brightening global economic picture and the effects of recently passed tax cuts raising the prospect for solid growth and continued interest rate increases.The minutes of the Fed's Jan ... They noted a stronger U.S. and global economy as well as expectations that the Republican tax cuts enacted in ... ....

The blockchain payment company Ripple has added two more banks and three global money transfer service providers to its list of partners. Nevertheless, financial analysts believe that the value of its cryptocurrency, XRP, may drop to $0.95 today due to external factors ... ....

New Zealand insurtech startup, InsuredHQ , has been chosen to pitch at the Global InsurTech Roadshow . It is one of only 25 international early-stage startups to be selected. The ‘Goethe InsurTech Award’ will go to the best pitch on the day but ... ....